SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Title: Makin' Movies Format and Location: Demonstration, Lecture A200 (Math Lab) Description: Take advantage of the free tools that come with every computer and the American Film Institute's seven-years of research, field testing, and curriculum development to integrate video making into your core curriculum. Students take charge of their own learning, build on their visual literacy skills, and master and retain content at a deeper level. Strands: Collaboration , Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Audience: General Presenter: Joe Brennan
SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Title: SMART Humanities Formatand Location: Demonstration/Discussion A120 (Classroom) Description: This session focuses on an array of possibilties for utilizing SMART technologies in the Humanities. While simple and broad in scope, these ideas will help you "push the envelope" in your use of SMART technologies. Audience: Social Studies, English, Foreign Language Strands: Student Engagement, Multimedia & Design Presenter: SMART Facilitators
GENERAL SESSIONS Title: Google Earth: An Authentic Research Project Formatand Location: Workshop, Demonstration Spartan Conference Room Description: In this session, a panel of teachers from the English Department will demonstrate how students in their classes used Google Earth to conduct ethnographic research about an essential question of the junior-level English class: what does it mean to be an American? The American Interview Google Earth project enhanced several existing goals of the course, now better supported by technology. The project provided an authentic way for students to pursue major questions of the course, introduced an inquiry-based research model, and helped students to create and refine thesis statements.
As part of their research, students collected data through interviews with family and friends, created Google Earth place marks, and compiled their data into a master database in Google Earth. After these initial steps, students generated research questions about American attitudes toward America, and searched the database for answers to their questions. Presenters will describe the project in detail, share completed student work, and discuss adaptations to other content areas. Audience: General (This project used Google Earth for ethnographic research.The project could be adapted to other content areas, but may not apply to all.) Strands: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Student Projects Presenters: Debbie Cohen, Scott Glass, Joy Cooper
Title:Basic Uses of Moodle Formatand Location: Workshop C209 (Classroom) Description: In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore Moodle and the design of a course presence: posting homework, attaching activities, sharing resources, and communicating with students. This is a great introduction to how Moodle can be used by everyone to create a course learning space. Audience: General Strands: Communication Presenter: Nicole Abbott
Title: Improve your Images with Adobe Photoshop Format and Location: Workshop F102 (Bus. Lab) Description: Now that we all have access to Adobe Photoshop, come learn about a few of the tools that this powerhouse program has to offer! Whether you are working on your own personal photographs or trying to choose which images to use for classroom applications, we will discuss basic controls which greatly improve the quality of your images. Audience: General Strands: Communication, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Amie Elliott
Title: The Power of Blogging Formatand Location: Demonstration, Lecture F216 (Classroom) Description: Blogging is a great way for teachers to incorporate reading and writing into their curriculum using technology. Teachers will have the opportunity to see different types of class blogs and discuss whether individual blogs or a class blog is right for them. Participants will receive handouts on how to integrate the blogging unit into an existing curriculum and a sample rubric to assess student writing in the context of blogging. The basics of blogging will be discussed. Audience: General Strands: Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Mindy Bachrach
Title: Learn to Use Garageband Formatand Location: Lecture C210 (Classroom) Description: As part of the iLife suite, Garageband is an application which allows you to create your own music and podcasts. If you need to add music to a presentation, a video, create your first podcast or simply write and record your first original song, then come and learn how to use this exciting piece of software which is already included in your MacBook. Audience: General Strands: Communication, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Jorge Zamora
Title: Collaboration in the Digital Age Formatand Location: Workshop, Demonstration F201 (Classroom) Description: Collaboration has long been a valuable part of the classroom community and learning. Participants will explore collaboration in the digital age with the infusion various web 2.0 applications into their instructional practices as well as learn how to design lessons that help students improve their retention of concepts and demonstrate knowledge in a collaborative environment. Audience: General Strands: Collaboration , Critical Thinking, Student Projects Presenter: Stephanie Bitter
Title: Google Docs: Creating Online Surveys In 3 Easy Steps Formatand Location: Workshop F207 (Classroom) Description: Have you ever wished you could create a quick and easy online survey? Learn how to use the Google Docs form tool to create online surveys, share the survey and gather data in no time. During this session you’ll create your own survey and collect responses from others in the session. Audience: General Strands: Assessment, Collaboration , Communication Presenter: Lisa Sly
Title: Meet Your Mac. From On to Off Format,Time, and Location: Lecture, Workshop, Demonstration, Hands on A208 (Social Studies Lab) Description: In "Meet Your Mac" from On to Off you would explore everything you would like to know about your Mac and then some more. We will cover many of the basic, personal set up to drive location, server connections, and even some of the "Mac" gems like Remote Desktop, iLife, Garageband, and iMovie. Audience: General Strands: Collaboration , Critical Thinking, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Rob Milkowski
Title: Social Bookmarking with Delicious Formatand Location: Demonstration, Hands-on A138 (Classroom) Description: Learn how to save and easily organize your bookmarks online with the social bookmarking tool Delicious. We will discuss strategies for using this tool to share information with students and colleagues. There will be time to set up accounts and get started. Audience: General Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Student Projects Presenter: Katy Hansen
Title: Mathematics and Web 2.0 Formatand Location: Panel Discussion A241 (Classroom) Description: This will be an open dialog about whether interactive web-based tools can be used to enhance mathematics education in the 21st century. It will NOT focus on traditional potential uses of SmartBoard, TI Navigator, CAS, etc. The sole purpose is to determine IF or HOW Web 2.0 tools should be implemented. We will NOT be using any of these tools, nor will we be demonstrating these tools - just talk and share. Audience: Mathematics Strands: Assessment, Collaboration , Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Greg Malis
Title: Ten Strategies for Improving Student Presentation Media Formatand Location: Lecture F107 (Classroom) Description: Being able to communicate effectively has never been more important…This presentation provides participants with a set of classroom-tested strategies for dramatically improving the ability of students to produce high-quality presentation media. Ten practical strategies, which are based in brain biology and the principles of visual literacy, will be demonstrated. The session will be supported by the classroom materials (presentation, documents, and script) that teachers can use to make a one-hour classroom presentation to students. Leave the session with strategies and materials you can use tomorrow to improve what you and your students do. Audience: General Strands: Communication, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: David Jakes
Title: The World of Web 2.0 and You: Exploring the Power of Participatory Media in Education Formatand Location: Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion Green and Gold Conference Room Description: The shift of the web from a 1-way form (web 1.0) communication to 2-way (web 2.0) is fundamentally shifting society in the ways we communicate, connect, collaborate, create, and maybe even think. While this shift to participatory media is changing many facets of society, it is in education where the power and philosophy of web 2.0 is affording us new opportunities and approaches to what we already know to be best practices. However, with these inevitable changes to education, critical questions have emerged regarding the use of these Web 2.0 technologies in education. How do we best leverage these in the classroom? What is the right tool for the right moment? Where do we go to stay current with all of these changes? Why do we need to bring web 2.0 into the classroom? Do they actually lead to new literacies or do they simply offer a new way to attain existing ones? What impact are they really having on students and schools? Can one be an excellent teacher without using today's technology? This session will strive to answer these and many other questions as we explore the power of participatory media in education starting from square one. Audience: General Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Assessment, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects Presenter: Ryan Bretag
Title:How to Use Career Cruising Formatand Location: Demonstration C109 (Classroom) Description: Career Cruising is a program available to all Glenbrook students and staff. It is a web based program that allows students to take assesments on their intrest and skills then search occupations, that best suit those traits.This is used by some schools as a required freshman program culminating into a 4 year portfolio with resume. The reaction I get from most students about Career Cruising is why hasn't somebody shown me this sooner. Audience: General Strands: Assessment, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Student Projects Presenter: Steve Kornick
Title: Using Senteos to Enhance Instructional Delivery and Assessment Formatand Location: Lecture, Demonstration, Workshop F211 (Classroom) Description: Assessment is key to any classroom and Senteo clickers are a great tool for assessing and reviewing with your students regardless of curricular content. During this presentation, the basics of Senteo and smart board skills will be covered that will enhance any classroom presentation. Audience: General Strands: Assessment, Collaboration, Multimedia & Design Presenter: Justin Georgacakis
Title: Understanding Wikipedia: What it does well, what it does poorly & what we can learn from it Formatand Location: Lecture, Workshop, Demonstration A128 (Classroom) Description: Are you getting a lot of projects with Wikipedia as a cited source? Are you concerned that your students are using this ever-changing, ever-growing resource that “anyone can edit”, but not sure how to evaluate whether the information they’re providing is reliable? Then this session is for you. We will explore how and when it’s appropriate to use Wikipedia as a research tool. We will also take a look at how their “wiki” model of gathering and publishing information is being used by communities of professional researchers to collaborate to create high quality content on the web that takes advantage of their collective knowledge. Audience: General Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Student Projects Presenter: Kris Jacobson
Title: Just Flip It! Exploring the Use of Video in the Classroom Formatand Location: Demonstration, Workshop E100 (Classroom) Description: This session is an introduction of the Flip Video and how easy and beneficial it is to use. Participants will receive a brief overview of how the Flip Videos work before having time to make a short flip video. After creating a short video, participants will explore how to save and make the videos available to students via DVDs, youtube video etc... Audience: Physical Education Strands: Multimedia & Design, Student Project Presenter: Beth Figaro
Breakout Session One
SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Title: Makin' Movies
Format and Location: Demonstration, Lecture A200 (Math Lab)
Description: Take advantage of the free tools that come with every computer and the American Film Institute's seven-years of research, field testing, and curriculum development to integrate video making into your core curriculum. Students take charge of their own learning, build on their visual literacy skills, and master and retain content at a deeper level.
Strands: Collaboration , Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Audience: General
Presenter: Joe Brennan
SPOTLIGHT SPEAKER
Title: SMART Humanities
Format and Location: Demonstration/Discussion A120 (Classroom)
Description: This session focuses on an array of possibilties for utilizing SMART technologies in the Humanities. While simple and broad in scope, these ideas will help you "push the envelope" in your use of SMART technologies.
Audience: Social Studies, English, Foreign Language
Strands: Student Engagement, Multimedia & Design
Presenter: SMART Facilitators
GENERAL SESSIONS
Title: Google Earth: An Authentic Research Project
Format and Location: Workshop, Demonstration Spartan Conference Room
Description: In this session, a panel of teachers from the English Department will demonstrate how students in their classes used Google Earth to conduct ethnographic research about an essential question of the junior-level English class: what does it mean to be an American? The American Interview Google Earth project enhanced several existing goals of the course, now better supported by technology. The project provided an authentic way for students to pursue major questions of the course, introduced an inquiry-based research model, and helped students to create and refine thesis statements.
As part of their research, students collected data through interviews with family and friends, created Google Earth place marks, and compiled their data into a master database in Google Earth. After these initial steps, students generated research questions about American attitudes toward America, and searched the database for answers to their questions. Presenters will describe the project in detail, share completed student work, and discuss adaptations to other content areas.
Audience: General (This project used Google Earth for ethnographic research.The project could be adapted to other content areas, but may not apply to all.)
Strands: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Student Projects
Presenters: Debbie Cohen, Scott Glass, Joy Cooper
Title: Basic Uses of Moodle
Format and Location: Workshop C209 (Classroom)
Description: In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore Moodle and the design of a course presence: posting homework, attaching activities, sharing resources, and communicating with students. This is a great introduction to how Moodle can be used by everyone to create a course learning space.
Audience: General
Strands: Communication
Presenter: Nicole Abbott
Title: Improve your Images with Adobe Photoshop
Format and Location: Workshop F102 (Bus. Lab)
Description: Now that we all have access to Adobe Photoshop, come learn about a few of the tools that this powerhouse program has to offer! Whether you are working on your own personal photographs or trying to choose which images to use for classroom applications, we will discuss basic controls which greatly improve the quality of your images.
Audience: General
Strands: Communication, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Amie Elliott
Title: The Power of Blogging
Format and Location: Demonstration, Lecture F216 (Classroom)
Description: Blogging is a great way for teachers to incorporate reading and writing into their curriculum using technology. Teachers will have the opportunity to see different types of class blogs and discuss whether individual blogs or a class blog is right for them. Participants will receive handouts on how to integrate the blogging unit into an existing curriculum and a sample rubric to assess student writing in the context of blogging. The basics of blogging will be discussed.
Audience: General
Strands: Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Mindy Bachrach
Title: Learn to Use Garageband
Format and Location: Lecture C210 (Classroom)
Description: As part of the iLife suite, Garageband is an application which allows you to create your own music and podcasts. If you need to add music to a presentation, a video, create your first podcast or simply write and record your first original song, then come and learn how to use this exciting piece of software which is already included in your MacBook.
Audience: General
Strands: Communication, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Jorge Zamora
Title: Collaboration in the Digital Age
Format and Location: Workshop, Demonstration F201 (Classroom)
Description: Collaboration has long been a valuable part of the classroom community and learning. Participants will explore collaboration in the digital age with the infusion various web 2.0 applications into their instructional practices as well as learn how to design lessons that help students improve their retention of concepts and demonstrate knowledge in a collaborative environment.
Audience: General
Strands: Collaboration , Critical Thinking, Student Projects
Presenter: Stephanie Bitter
Title: Google Docs: Creating Online Surveys In 3 Easy Steps
Format and Location: Workshop F207 (Classroom)
Description: Have you ever wished you could create a quick and easy online survey? Learn how to use the Google Docs form tool to create online surveys, share the survey and gather data in no time. During this session you’ll create your own survey and collect responses from others in the session.
Audience: General
Strands: Assessment, Collaboration , Communication
Presenter: Lisa Sly
Title: Meet Your Mac. From On to Off
Format, Time, and Location: Lecture, Workshop, Demonstration, Hands on A208 (Social Studies Lab)
Description: In "Meet Your Mac" from On to Off you would explore everything you would like to know about your Mac and then some more. We will cover many of the basic, personal set up to drive location, server connections, and even some of the "Mac" gems like Remote Desktop, iLife, Garageband, and iMovie.
Audience: General
Strands: Collaboration , Critical Thinking, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Rob Milkowski
Title: Social Bookmarking with Delicious
Format and Location: Demonstration, Hands-on A138 (Classroom)
Description: Learn how to save and easily organize your bookmarks online with the social bookmarking tool Delicious. We will discuss strategies for using this tool to share information with students and colleagues. There will be time to set up accounts and get started.
Audience: General
Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Student Projects
Presenter: Katy Hansen
Title: Mathematics and Web 2.0
Format and Location: Panel Discussion A241 (Classroom)
Description: This will be an open dialog about whether interactive web-based tools can be used to enhance mathematics education in the 21st century. It will NOT focus on traditional potential uses of SmartBoard, TI Navigator, CAS, etc. The sole purpose is to determine IF or HOW Web 2.0 tools should be implemented. We will NOT be using any of these tools, nor will we be demonstrating these tools - just talk and share.
Audience: Mathematics
Strands: Assessment, Collaboration , Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Greg Malis
Title: Ten Strategies for Improving Student Presentation Media
Format and Location: Lecture F107 (Classroom)
Description: Being able to communicate effectively has never been more important…This presentation provides participants with a set of classroom-tested strategies for dramatically improving the ability of students to produce high-quality presentation media. Ten practical strategies, which are based in brain biology and the principles of visual literacy, will be demonstrated. The session will be supported by the classroom materials (presentation, documents, and script) that teachers can use to make a one-hour classroom presentation to students. Leave the session with strategies and materials you can use tomorrow to improve what you and your students do.
Audience: General
Strands: Communication, Literacy, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: David Jakes
Title: The World of Web 2.0 and You: Exploring the Power of Participatory Media in Education
Format and Location: Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion Green and Gold Conference Room
Description: The shift of the web from a 1-way form (web 1.0) communication to 2-way (web 2.0) is fundamentally shifting society in the ways we communicate, connect, collaborate, create, and maybe even think. While this shift to participatory media is changing many facets of society, it is in education where the power and philosophy of web 2.0 is affording us new opportunities and approaches to what we already know to be best practices. However, with these inevitable changes to education, critical questions have emerged regarding the use of these Web 2.0 technologies in education. How do we best leverage these in the classroom? What is the right tool for the right moment? Where do we go to stay current with all of these changes? Why do we need to bring web 2.0 into the classroom? Do they actually lead to new literacies or do they simply offer a new way to attain existing ones? What impact are they really having on students and schools? Can one be an excellent teacher without using today's technology? This session will strive to answer these and many other questions as we explore the power of participatory media in education starting from square one.
Audience: General
Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Assessment, Multimedia & Design, Student Projects
Presenter: Ryan Bretag
Title:How to Use Career Cruising
Format and Location: Demonstration C109 (Classroom)
Description: Career Cruising is a program available to all Glenbrook students and staff. It is a web based program that allows students to take assesments on their intrest and skills then search occupations, that best suit those traits.This is used by some schools as a required freshman program culminating into a 4 year portfolio with resume. The reaction I get from most students about Career Cruising is why hasn't somebody shown me this sooner.
Audience: General
Strands: Assessment, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Student Projects
Presenter: Steve Kornick
Title: Using Senteos to Enhance Instructional Delivery and Assessment
Format and Location: Lecture, Demonstration, Workshop F211 (Classroom)
Description: Assessment is key to any classroom and Senteo clickers are a great tool for assessing and reviewing with your students regardless of curricular content. During this presentation, the basics of Senteo and smart board skills will be covered that will enhance any classroom presentation.
Audience: General
Strands: Assessment, Collaboration, Multimedia & Design
Presenter: Justin Georgacakis
Title: Understanding Wikipedia: What it does well, what it does poorly & what we can learn from it
Format and Location: Lecture, Workshop, Demonstration A128 (Classroom)
Description: Are you getting a lot of projects with Wikipedia as a cited source? Are you concerned that your students are using this ever-changing, ever-growing resource that “anyone can edit”, but not sure how to evaluate whether the information they’re providing is reliable? Then this session is for you. We will explore how and when it’s appropriate to use Wikipedia as a research tool. We will also take a look at how their “wiki” model of gathering and publishing information is being used by communities of professional researchers to collaborate to create high quality content on the web that takes advantage of their collective knowledge.
Audience: General
Strands: Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Student Projects
Presenter: Kris Jacobson
Title: Just Flip It! Exploring the Use of Video in the Classroom
Format and Location: Demonstration, Workshop E100 (Classroom)
Description: This session is an introduction of the Flip Video and how easy and beneficial it is to use. Participants will receive a brief overview of how the Flip Videos work before having time to make a short flip video. After creating a short video, participants will explore how to save and make the videos available to students via DVDs, youtube video etc...
Audience: Physical Education
Strands: Multimedia & Design, Student Project
Presenter: Beth Figaro